Terror & Propaganda

Question 1

Police state

Answer 1

Nazi’s use the police to control people through fear

Question 2

SA

Answer 2

Removed in 1934

Question 3

SS

Answer 3

Hitler’s personal body guards became Nazi’s private police force
There were no limits to their powers
Leader = Himmler
Wore black uniforms
Brutal, beat people up, acted outside the law

Question 4

Gestapo

Answer 4

Most feared section of police
No uniform - spied on people
They used torture, and those arrested often disappeared

Question 5

How many people arrested by Gestapo in 1939?

Answer 5

160,000

Question 6

Propaganda and censorship (by Goebbles)

Answer 6

• banned all newspapers except Nazi
• germans didn’t have free press
• 1939 70% German homes had radio
• made radio cheap and accessible (couldn’t pick up foreign stations)
• Nuremberg Rallies were held every year to create a sense of belonging and excitement

Question 7

How many homes had radio?

Answer 7

70% in 1939

Question 8

Concentration camps (before 1939)

Answer 8

First camp = Dachau 1933
Located in isolated places so the public couldn’t see
SS officers were brutal bullies
Not fed properly
Jews, homosexual, disabled, political opponents

Question 9

Culture

Answer 9

• 45m traitors before every film in cinema promoting Nazis
• Jazz (black music) and others banned
• jewish & communist books burned

Question 10

Church

Answer 10

Christianity and church was repressed

Question 11

Legal System

Answer 11

Judges had to swear oath of Loyalty and join Nazi Layers Association
Jury was abolished
Effectively no fair trials